FASHIONING OLD AND NEW

FASHIONING OLD AND NEW

SEUH 18 STUDIES IN EUROPEAN URBAN HISTORY (1100 1800) SERIES EDITOR MARC BOONE Ghent University

FASHIONING OLD AND NEW Changing Consumer Preferences in Europe (Seventeenth Nineteenth Centuries) BRUNO BLONDÉ, NATACHA COQUERY, JON STOBART AND ILJA VAN DAMME (EDS.)

Cover illustration: Buying second-hand in Antwerp, end of the nineteenth century Source: Private collection Janssens, Berchem 2009, Brepols Publishers n. v., Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2009/0095/17 ISBN 978-2-503-52878-6 Printed in the E.U. on acid-free paper

TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Preface Bruno Blondé, Natacha Coquery, Jon Stobart and Ilja Van Damme VII CHAPTER 1 BRUNO BLONDÉ AND ILJA VAN DAMME 1 Fashioning Old and New or Moulding the Material Culture of Europe (Late Seventeenth Early Nineteenth Centuries) PART I PRODUCING 15 CHAPTER 2 ARIANE FENNETAUX 17 Toying with Novelty: Toys, Consumption and Novelty in Eighteenth Century Britain CHAPTER 3 MARIE-AGNÈS DEQUIDT 29 Watch and Clock Ownership in Paris, 1750 1850 CHAPTER 4 CLIVE EDWARDS 43 Perspectives on the Retailing and Acquisition of New and Old Furniture in England, 1700 1850 PART II CONSUMING 59 CHAPTER 5 BRUNO BLONDÉ 61 Conflicting Consumption Models? The Symbolic Meaning of Possessions and Consumption amongst the Antwerp Nobility at the End of the Eighteenth Century CHAPTER 6 AMY BARNETT 81 In with the New: Novel Goods in Domestic Provincial England, c. 1700 1790 PART III RETAILING 95 CHAPTER 7 ILJA VAN DAMME 97 The Lure of the New: Urban Retailing in the Surroundings of Antwerp (Late Seventeenth Early Eighteenth Centuries) V

CONTENTS CHAPTER 8 NATACHA COQUERY 121 The Semi-Luxury Market, Shopkeepers and Social Diffusion: Marketing Chinoiseries in Eighteenth Century Paris CHAPTER 9 JON STOBART 133 In and Out of Fashion? Advertising Novel and Second-Hand Goods in Georgian England CHAPTER 10 MARIE GILLET 145 Supply of Shopkeepers in Besançon in the First Part of the Nineteenth Century: Novelties between Old and New PART IV AUCTIONING 167 CHAPTER 11 DRIES LYNA 169 Changing Geographies and the Rise of the Modern Auction. Transformations on the Second-Hand Markets of Eighteenth Century Antwerp CHAPTER 12 KRISTINA LILJA, SOFIA MURHEM, GÖRAN ULVÄNG 185 The Indispensable Market: Auctions in Sweden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries CHAPTER 13 CHARLOTTE GUICHARD 203 From Social Event to Urban Spectacle: Art Auctions in Late Eighteenth Century Paris CHAPTER 14 MANUEL CHARPY 217 The Auction House and its Surroundings: the Trade of Antiques and Second-Hand Items in Paris during the Nineteenth Century VI

EDITORIAL PREFACE This volume originated from a session organised by Bruno Blondé, Natacha Coquery and Jon Stobart at the Eight International Conference on Urban History in Stockholm, 2006. Hence the editors would like to thank the board of the European Association of Urban Historians for granting them the possibility to organise the major session. The session s chief aim was to describe the relationship between the buying and selling of new and old goods in the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries. In line with the general approach of the conference Urban Europe in Comparative Perspective a comparative perspective was envisaged with contributions varying in thematic approaches as well as chronological and geographical scope. Although the majority of papers were presented at the Stockholm-conference, some contributions were recruited afterwards to improve the homogeneity of this present volume. Thanks are due to the editorial board of the Brepols-Series Studies in European Urban History, and especially to the series editor, Marc Boone (Ghent University) for accepting this volume into the series. Additional funding for the publication of this volume was provided by the University of Antwerp and the project City and Society in the Low Countries, 1200 1800: space, knowledge, social capital (Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme Belgian State Federal Public Planning Service, PPS Science Policy). Bruno Blondé, Natacha Coquery, Jon Stobart and Ilja Van Damme Antwerp, October 22nd 2008 VII